Don't Take This Exercise for Granted
Purpose: This exercise encourages students to explore ways of employing effective detail-driven transitions within their writing. By...
When I Grown Up: Reflecting and Personal Growth
Purpose: An invention exercise, especially for a position shift, or personal narrative essay that also asks students to explore their...
Early-stage Conference
Purpose: These strategies are intended to help facilitate the early-stage conference; they particularly focus on invention, outlining,...
Genre Speed Dating
Purpose of Exercise: To get a series of investigative questions that help students interrogate their specific, chosen genre. Description:...
Writer's Eye
This activity asks students to use images from the Museum of Modern Art as invention inspiration for either a poem or prose piece....